Spain

Pro-Palestine Activist Fergie Chambers Arrested In Spain

July 14, 2026 Amandla Thomas-Johnson, Middle East Eye. Educate! Extradition, Fergie Chambers, Legal System, Spain, State Repression

Fergie Chambers, the American activist and heir to the Cox family fortune who has financed humanitarian relief in Gaza alongside pro-Palestinian campaigns, has been arrested in Spain on a US extradition request alleging money laundering and other offences. Chambers was arrested on Friday morning on the island of Ibiza. Later that day, he appeared before a judge, who denied him bail pending extradition proceedings. Over the past decade, Chambers has used part of his inherited fortune to support humanitarian initiatives in Gaza and legal defence funds for left-wing activists in the United States and the UK.

Spanish PM Tells Trump His Country Will Not Be Fooled Twice

July 13, 2026 Maddison Wheeldon, The Canary. Resist! Antiwar Movement, Iran, Spain, Wars and Militarism

Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has once again pushed back against the US military machine. He has made it clear to Trump and his backers that Spain will not allow another US president to drag the country into an illegal war in West Asia on the back of bogus claims. This refers back to the illegal war on Iraq, which began on the basis that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. However, this ‘justification’ for the mass murder of Iraqis was debunked and revealed for the manipulative misinformation it was. Whilst many haven’t learned and continue to parrot lines from bad actors in power, Spain has.

Spain Blacklists Palantir Over Domestic Security Concerns

July 3, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Human Rights, Palantir, Spain, Surveillance

Spain's government launched a blacklist of CIA-backed Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled entities, Spanish media reported on 1 July. The Spanish Prime Minister's Office issued directives to companies under the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI) to cease future contracting due to security concerns and worries regarding the vulnerability of sensitive state data. The ban targets organizations handling high-level communications and military intelligence, including Indra, Telefonica, and the shipbuilder Navantia.

Education Strikes Across Spanish State Demonstrate Power Of Self-Organization

June 4, 2026 Pola Posen, Left Voice. Organize! Education, Spain, Strike, Teachers

On Wednesday, the yellow shirts of hundreds of teachers shone in the scorching Catalan sun as they flooded onto the AP7, a key highway that connects Barcelona to France and the rest of Europe. As far as the eye could see, trucks slowed to a halt: the Catalan general education sector strike had successfully blocked the movement of goods along the highway. The strike extended to every part of the education sector: even private summer camps were shut down by the strike. Mobilizations burst onto the streets — across the region, tens of thousands of teachers and allies rallied and blocked main roads.

Basque Police Beat Global Sumud Flotilla Torture Survivors In Spain

May 24, 2026 Ahmed Eldin, Out Loud. Educate! Global Sumud Flotilla, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Police, police brutality, Spain, Torture

The video from Bilbao Airport today is as brutal as it is bewildering. Six Basque activists walk through arrivals, fresh from being intercepted, detained, and abused by Israeli forces while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, carrying physical and psychological scars from their encounter with the Israeli military. Basque police, the Ertzaintza, descended on Loiu Airport with batons drawn. They attacked the activists and the friends and family who had gathered to welcome them home. Four people were arrested, charged with “desobediencia grave, resistencia y atentado a agente de la autoridad” — the standard playbook for criminalizing solidarity.

Spain To Formally Call On EU To Suspend Agreement With Israel

April 21, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! BDS Movement, European Union (EU), Foreign Relations, Genocide, Israel, Spain

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on 19 April that his government will formally propose that the EU suspend its Association Agreement with Israel. “A government that violates international law and, therefore, the principles and values of the EU cannot be our partner,” Sanchez said, speaking at a PSOE rally in the province of Huelva. “This Tuesday, the Government of Spain will take to Europe the proposal that the EU sever its association with Israel,” he stressed. Sanchez was careful to say that Spain’s stance is directed against the Israeli government and its policies, and not its citizens, saying, "We are a people friendly to Israel.”

Global South Leaders Discuss Anti-Fascist Strategies

April 19, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Organize! Democracy, Fascism, Progressive Summit, Spain

The Global Progressive Mobilization (GPM), an international summit of progressives from around the world, was inaugurated on Friday, April 17, in Barcelona, Spain. The event brings together representatives of political movements from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America to establish a strategic alliance to confront the global rise of the far right. The summit, which will continue until Saturday, April 18, seeks to lay the foundations for a historic pact that unifies progressive parties in the defense of participatory and humanist democracy.

Spain Blocks US Jets Bound For Iran

April 1, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Iran, Spain, US Foreign Bases, Wars and Militarism

The Spanish government continues to stand out among European countries for its explicit refusal to become complicit in illegal US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Over recent days, government officials reasserted that the country had rejected use of its airspace for flights involved in the war. “All flight plans involving operations in Iran have been rejected,” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stated during a parliamentary address. Sánchez added this decision was made “because we are a sovereign country that does not want to participate in illegal wars.”

Spain’s Migrant Regularization Marks A Rare Progressive Turn

March 30, 2026 Kim Wilson, Canadian Dimension. Create! Immigrant Rights, Socialism, Spain, Worker Rights

On a warm and sunny February morning in Alicante, dozens of people crowded outside the Algerian consulate next to the city’s central market. Almost entirely men, mostly young or middle-aged, they rummaged through documents and passports, speaking Arabic to one another in low voices. The spectacle on the street couldn’t have gone unnoticed. Small crowds of migrants have become a common sight in cities across Spain since Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s recent announcement that the government would soon begin the process of regularizing undocumented migrant workers currently living there.

Spanish PM Fires Back At Trump Over Threats To Cut Trade

March 4, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Iran, Spain, Trade, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez responded on 4 March to US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut trade with Madrid, doubling down on his country’s refusal to participate in the war on Iran. Spain will “not be complicit in something that is bad for the world – and that is also contrary to our values and interests – simply out of fear of reprisals from someone,” Sanchez said in a speech on Wednesday. “You can’t respond to one illegality with another because that’s how humanity’s great disasters begin.” “You can’t play Russian roulette with the destiny of millions … Nobody knows for sure what will happen now."

In Spain, Amazon Workers Win With Quick-Hit Walkouts

March 3, 2026 Alfonso Martínez Valero, Labor Notes. Strategize! Amazon, Spain, Strikes, Victory, Worker Rights

At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off. We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators. The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them.

Spanish City Resurrects 3,000-Year-Old Solution To Fight Extreme Heat

February 23, 2026 Peter Yeung, Next City. Create! climate crisis, Cooling, Global heating, History, Spain, Water

A few meters below the former site of Seville’s 1992 World Expo, a promising climate experiment blending ancient technology and modern science is underway. Rows of black pipes run along the ceiling and down the bare concrete walls. These, in turn, connect to bright blue and green tubes and enormous silver pumps. In a control room to the side, an array of monitors display the heat, humidity and wind speed above. “We have deployed several types of cooling systems here, each one used depending on climatic conditions,” says Maria de la Paz Montero Gutiérrez, a researcher at the University of Seville, from down in the building’s bowels where she is helping supervise the project.

Spain’s Popular Front At 90: The Anti-Fascist Struggle That Changed The World

February 16, 2026 C.J. Atkins, People's World. Strategize! Anti-fascism, History, Lincoln Brigades, Spain

Ninety years ago, the people of Spain delivered a forceful rebuke to right-wing extremism and opened one of the most dramatic chapters in working-class history. The election victory on Feb. 16, 1936, of the Popular Front (Frente Popular)—an alliance of socialists, communists, republicans, and other democratic forces—was much more than a routine parliamentary transition of government. It was a mass uprising at the ballot box, fueled by workers, farmers, women, and youth. They were determined to defend democracy and push forward with reforms that had been long-delayed by a series of right-wing administrations.

Striking Spanish Workers Show That Amazon Is Not Invincible

January 24, 2026 Jonathan Rosenblum, Truthout. Organize! Amazon, Creative Action, Spain, Strikes

The latest flashpoint of resistance to global logistics juggernaut Amazon has proven, once again, that collective worker power can force the company into improving its miserable working conditions. Amazon workers in Murcia, in southeastern Spain, struck twice at the RMU1 fulfillment center during the 2025 holiday “peak” season and forced the company into a negotiated settlement in late December. Workers won a 14 percent wage increase that took effect this month (January). They also won annual increases of 4 percent in each of the next two years, improved Sunday and night shift pay, and more paid time off.

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